OBJECTIVES Speeding and passing are considered to be the main human factors resulting in road traffic injuries (RTIs). This study aimed to estimate the population attributeable fraction (PAF) of speeding and passing in RTIs in rural Iran during 2012. METHODS The contribution of speeding and passing to RTI-related morbidity and mortality was estimated using the PAF method. The prevalence of sp...

In the behavioral approach a dynamical system is essentially determined by a set of trajectories B, which is called behavior. There exist various ways for representing behaviors that are linear and shift-invariant: kernel representations, image representations and latent variable representations. In this paper we deal with families of parametrized linear shift-invariant behaviors and with the p...

Autonomous behaviors created by the research and development community are not being extensively utilized within energy, defense, security, or industrial contexts. This paper provides evidence that the interaction methods used alongside these behaviors may not provide a mental model that can be easily adopted or used by operators. Although autonomy has the potential to reduce overall workload, ...

BACKGROUND In many countries, rates of facility-based childbirth have increased substantially in recent years. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the acceptability and quality of maternal health services provided at facilities and, consequently, maternal health outcomes have not improved as expected. Disrespect and abuse during childbirth is increasingly being recognized as an ind...

For high-power operation of charged particle rf accelerators, the input coupler windows must withstand enormous stresses due to charging induced by the highenergy charged particle beam passing by and high rf power passing through. Since most couplers use a single coupling aperture, harmful asymmetrical rf kick on the beam at the coupler-cavity interface exists. If this problem is solved by dual...

The objective of this work was to identify factors influencing cheese wear behaviors. Wear behaviors cheeses with different fat contents (40, 50, 52, and 54 FDM) were evaluated at normal forces (0.5 0.7 N), sliding speeds (30 50 mm/s), temperatures (5, 15, 25 °C) every 15 d up 60 d. All showed highest mass loss °C compared that 5 °C, while higher penetration depth observed °C. Impact force on t...

The leading causes of mortality in adolescents continue to be accidents, homicide, suicide, sexually transmitted infections, teen pregnancy, eating disorders and drug abuse related mortality. All these causes are preventable and primarily due to risk taking behaviors related to the developmental stage of adolescents. The same risk taking behaviors are also leading causes of morbidity. In many i...

This paper presents some advanced examples of reactive vision-based cooperative behaviors: (1) Chasing and posing against another robot among others, (2) Unblocking the path of another robot by removing an obstacle, (3) Passing an object from one to another. These behaviors are demonstrated using real mobile robots equipped with CCD cameras, in a complex environment, and with no central control...